Category: Movie Comedies (Page 191 of 195)

Speed of lightning, roar of thunder…

…fighting those who rob or plunder.

Of whom do I speak…? Why, Underdog, of course.

It’s hard to get but so psyched at the idea of a live-action “Underdog” movie, just because the odds are that it’s only going to sully the reputation of a perfectly good cartoon, but now that “Station Agent” star Peter Dinklage has signed on to play evil bastard Simon Bar Sinister

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…well, it does up its chances of being watchable by a considerable amount.

If you’re gonna get behind a good cause…

…well, I don’t know if this is necessarily one or not: getting the movie “Skidoo” released on DVD.

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If you’ve never heard of it, well, that’s not necessarily a surprise. It was a 1968 Otto Preminger film which was ol’ Otto’s attempt at mixing the older generations of movie and TV stars with a plot the “kids” could “dig.”

The preview…which can be found here, thanks to a kind soul on YouTube…includes testimonials from both Sammy Davis, Jr., and Dr. Timothy Leary. They’re not even in the film; they just think you’d really like it.

And, at least in theory, why wouldn’t you?

As Mark Evanier says on his blog, NewsFromMe.com, “there’s something to be said for a film in which the most restrained, believable performance is given by Carol Channing,” but, in addition, Groucho Marx plays God (which, if nothing else, proves that whoever God looks like, he’s definitely a cigar smoker), and some of his co-stars include Davis’s “Rat Pack” cohort Peter Lawford, Mickey Rooney, Jackie Gleason, three villains from the old “Batman” series (Riddler Frank Gorshin, Penguin Burgess Meredith, and Joker Cesar Romero), Frankie Avalon, Harry Nilsson (who also contributed to the soundtrack), Slim Pickens, Arnold Stang, and Richard Kiel, a.k.a. Jaws from the Bond movies.

Evanier is on a quest to get the movie released on DVD. Join him, won’t you…?

“Die Hard”…as a silent movie?

Thank you, once again, YouTube, for this.

“It’s Christmas, 1924, and young Manhattanite John McClane visits olde Los Angeles towne to see his wife and enjoy yultide splendor. However, a few ne’er-do-wells have plans of their own, and C4.”

If you laughed at things like “Steamboat Itchy” or any other silent movie parodies from “The Simpsons,” “Futurama,” or “Family Guy,” you’ll be rolling at this just as much as I was…

Trailer Hitch: “Mission: Impossible III,” “Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector”

“Mission: Impossible III”
Everyone’s favorite secret adoptee father-to-be still hasn’t made a good “M:I” movie yet — five words: John Woo, slo-mo doves — but this one, at least on paper, looks mighty fine. The casting of Philip Seymour Hoffman couldn’t be more timely, and the supporting cast is loaded with talent, from Ving Rhames and Laurence Fishburne to Keri Russell and Sasha Alexander (notice there are different types of “talent” we’re talking about here). Even Greg “Weiss” Grunberg, longtime standby of writer/director J.J. Abrams, is involved. And the bits where Hoffman is telling Cruise what he will do to his loved ones, is more sinister than the last two “M:I” movies combined.

But, if we’ve learned anything, it is to not go into any “M:I” movie with any expectations whatsoever, so take this trailer with a mound of salt.

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“Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector”
If these three scenes don’t tell you why this movie isn’t being screened for critics, nothing else does. Only the first scene is remotely redeemable, and that’s because it features the divine Lisa Lampa-freaking-hoo-ha as the MOTHER of Larry’s love interest (a relationship which, for the record, ranks as the impossible 16/1 upset on Eli Cash’s scale). The very fact that one of them is called Later Bathroom Moment, implying that there’s an Earlier Bathroom Moment, tells me all I need to know.

Trailer #1: Meeting Mom
Trailer #2: LaterBathroom Moment
Trailer #3: Backup Plan

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